Chapter 22/ Inuyasha and Kagome

A/N: Sorry for the long awaited update! " Been busy. So here is what Inuyasha and Kagome were doing threw all this…

Disclaimer: If I did, would I be here?

XD

Inuyasha and Kagome stepped up to the deserted house. Yellow police tape had been placed on the outside and around the perimeter of the house. All the lights in the house were out and looked forbidding.

"You sure we won't get in trouble?" Kagome asked. Seeing the tape she remembered all the C.S.I. shows she would watch and know that when you cross the line you will be fined. 'Hey, that rhymed!' Kagome thought with a smiled.

"Nope." Inuyasha said confidently. "But yellow is the color for temptation, and I'm tempted to go in." Inuyasha then proceed to duck under the tape and stalked towards the house.

"If we get caught we could be fined!" Kagome whispered urgently. Inuyasha rolled his eyes.

"Have a backbone."

"I do. I just misplaced it at the moment…." Kagome could hear Inuyasha snickering. She was amazed at how much of a change she had seen with Inuyasha and herself. She recalled at their first meeting:

Flashback

"Sango, you can let go of my arm now." Sango gave a weak apology and let go of her arm. At first the plane ride was easy and kind of fun, then they hit a storm and a thunder bolt stalled the engine. They then plummeted to the earth only to have the engine revive and got of the rest of the way to the air port.

"Ok, I will NEVER ride a plane EVER AGAIN!" Sango commented. Kagome chuckled while trying to revive her arm.

"Ya well I'm never riding in a plane with you NEXT to me."

"Ha ha, vary funny. Can you believe were here! AND that were going to meet Domestic!" Sango and Kagome screamed softly at the thought of meeting them. Kagome sighed, "So… were are they?"

Sango looked around for anyone with a cake, a neon sign, or anything. Then way in the back Kagome saw it. Nudging Sango she pointed to a little man in the back of the room jumping up and down with a sign reading their names. Fighting their way threw the crowd the say that he was indeed a little man, shorted than Kagome, and had a face that reminded some one of a flea. A really fat flea that had sucked to much blood… wait…

"Good afternoon! I am Myoga the Flea. And wel-"

"Hold it! If you're a flea why aren't you tiny like a normal flea?" Kagome asked. Sango was just amazed that it talked!

"Yes, well I had to suck some blood to gain a form that you two will be able to see-" Kagome and Sango shot back away from him.

"You aren't sucking OUR blood!" they both yelled.

"And didn't we tell that we would eventually get their Myoga?" Turning around they saw golden eyes stare down at them and a smirk on his face. He then strolled over to the flea glaring don at him.

"Ah! Master Inuyasha! You came at last! I was just tell-"

"Save it Myoga and lets go, I'm hungry and I haven't had breakfast yet."

"But its like three in the afternoon." Kagome replied.

"And your point is little girl." Inuyasha looked over at Kagome and saw the she was carrying a stuff fox. Great… He thought, I'm baby sitting…

Kagome glared at him, and freeing one arm, punched him in the stomach. Looking away from him she said in a clod voice. "I am NOT a 'little girl'"

Wincing a little Inuyasha turned her around and pointed to the stuff animal. "So then what's this!"

"THIS is not a stuff animal!" Dropping the fox it transformed into Shippo again pouting for being called a stuff animal. "It's Shippo! My-"

"Son." Everyone looked down at Shippo a confused expression on everyone's face. Sighing Shippo explained. "I'm her adoptive son. Once she took me from the orphanage I became her son!" Looking over at Kagome he added, "If that's ok…" Smiling Kagome picked up Shippo and hugged him.

"Of course it's ok." Making a fake gagging sound, Inuyasha received glares from everyone.

"That was a little too mushy if you ask me."

"Well we didn't ask you, you dolt." Kagome commented.

"What did you call me!"

"A dolt. Or do you want me to spell it out for you?"

"Why you…"

"Break it up you two!" Sango had stepped in at that moment fearing a fight might break out and send them home. Glaring at each other for all their worth they stepped even farther away from each other that before.

End Flashback

Kagome snickered causing Inuyasha to stare at her funny.

"Oi, let's go!" He called out impatiently. Kagome shook her head to get rid of her thoughts and ran to catch up with her partner in crime.

XD

The inside of the house was nothing special. Not even the spiders found it interesting. White cloth covered everything. Kagome was afraid to walk threw for the fear of disturbing the silence. To bad Inuyasha didn't feel that way. The moment they walked threw Inuyasha barged into their without a second thought. At the moment he was sniffing at a vase next to the stairs.

"Inuyasha, take your shoes off!" Kagome hissed.

"You don't have to whisper." Inuyasha said back while taking off his shoes. "Why do we have to take them off?"

"Kikyo's death is still an ongoing investigation. If they find our shoe prints on the scene and trace it back to us we could be in deep trouble!"

"Fine, fine whatever…"

Walking in their socks both of them started to walk around the room.

"What are we looking for!" Inuyasha called out.

"Something…useful to get rid of Kikyo."

"Oh."

Silence

"Inuyasha?"

"Hm..?"

"…never mind."

More Silence

"It feels like were in one of those Scooby-do shows." Inuyasha said. Kagome laughed while looking under the sofa.

"You've got some imagination." Kagome said. She got up and walked over to where Inuyasha was looking at all the books in the book shelf. "I'm going to look in the kitchen Scooby."

"Ha, ha very funny, Velma!" Inuyasha called out as she turned the corner. He heard Kagome laugh and smiled.

"Jinkies!" Kagome called out.

"Do my ears deceive me or did someone find a clue?" Inuyasha said as he walked to where Kagome was stationed at. She pointed at the ceiling.

"Zoniks…" Inuyasha breathed out. On the ceiling was a message written in black mold. "What's the first word say?"

"'Dasvidanya! Ye are not guilty.' Weird." Kagome said.

"'Dasvidanya?' What's that mean?" Inuyasha asked.

"It means goodbye in Russian." Kagome commented as she made her way to just directly under the message.

"Are you sure that that's a good idea?" Inuyasha asked.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, I heard that it's bad luck to stand under mold." Kagome got a sly look at his word. Kagome walked slowly back to him in the creepiest manner he had ever seen.

Very superstitious, writing's on the wall, (Kagome)
Very superstitious, ladders bout' to fall,

Inuyasha smiled as Kagome sung out the words. Her voice got a creepy sound to it. He sighed, 'better humor her.'


Thirteen month oh baby, broke the lookin' glass (Inuyasha)
Seven years of bad luck, the good things in your past.

Now it was Kagome's turn to smile. Singing had a way of making her feel at ease with everything. The moment she had seen the writings, she wanted to sing. Ironically this was the song that popped into her head at that very moment.

When you believe in things that you don't understand, (Both)
Then you suffer,
Superstition ain't the way

They stared at each other for a moment then laughed. They were such dorks! Silently a single drop landed in Inuyasha's ear.

"Wha-?" Inuyasha flicked his ear to get the water out. Kagome looked up and almost screamed. The message was gone! Above their heads now was one big mold. It was gross to look at. Kagome had seen some gross things in her life but this take it all!

"Got it!" Inuyasha said in triumph. He looked over at the pale Kagome. She was looking at the floor now. He was aware of the ceiling but what was so intrusting about the floor?

Glancing down he saw it. And man, did he wish he didn't. The floor was covered with water, the green and black kind. What was worse was that in the water was hair. Tones of it were floating around them, sticking to their legs and everything else.

Then they heard it. From above them was the sound of running water, like it was overflowing. Kagome was shaking now. He could remember all the encounters with these that he and Kagome had shared: The cellar, mirror girl and woman, the music sheet girl, and last Naraku inside her. He could understand why she was feeling a little scared. In all honesty, he was too. Inuyasha reached down and grasped one of Kagome's hands. She gasped and stared into his eyes. He could read everything in those eyes right then. He never noticed before but her eyes had always been closed off. Not sharing any emotion. Now they were filled with fear.


Very superstitious, wash your face and hands, (Inuyasha)
Rid me of the problem, do all that you can,

If their ever was a time that she appreciated his presence it was now. Right beside her. Together. She calmed down a little. Together they made their way to the stair case. Water was running down it by the masses! Surly they would have heard the water when they came in if it had leaked this much. But that's the problem: They didn't. And that is what scares Kagome the worst. Kagome took a big gulp and she and Inuyasha made their way up the steps.


Keep me in a daydream, keep me goin' strong, (Kagome)
You don't wanna save me, sad is my song.

When you believe in things that you don't understand, (Inuyasha)
Then you suffer,
Superstition ain't the way, yeh, yeh.

One-third their. They could just make out the platform at the top.

When you believe in things that you don't understand, (Kagome)
Then you suffer,
Superstition ain't the way, yeh, yeh.

Half-way. They saw the window on the wall in front of them. They dared not look behind for the fear of what they didn't want to see.

And they were right. Out of the corners of their eyes they saw a dark figure lying in water….

When you believe in things that you don't understand, (Both)
Then you suffer,
Superstition ain't the way, no, no, no

Both of their feet were planted at the top. Inuyasha glanced at Kagome. She was shaking. He could feel the coldness of her hand in his. He gave it a reassuring squeeze. She nodded her thanks and mouth 'on the count to three…'

One….

Two….

Three!

They turned and were amazed at what they saw. The water…the figure…it was all gone! Not even a trace of it anywhere! Not even their socks were wet!

"What the…?" Kagome started to say. Inuyasha rubbed his eyes to make sure he was seeing things right.

"There was water here right?" Inuyasha asked uncertainly.

"Unless we were having the same hallucination as me…yes there was water here."

"Well, what now?"

"We do what we came here to do. Kikyo's room it at the very end of the hallway." Kagome swiftly took off down the hallway not looking at anything but her destination. Her skin had goose bumps all over. Her spine was just crawling itching to scrunch up and run away. As she passed a room she felt herself get light headed. Quickly she shut her eyes and quickened her pace.

Inuyasha watched her and noticed everything. By the way she leaned and then practically ran made him assume that she had the uh-oh feeling. Funny…and right in front of the bathroom…

Kagome reached the door to Kikyo's room and walked in followed by Inuyasha. The room looked normal enough. Her walls were painted lavender with various posters on the wall. There was a desk and a bookshelf in one corner and a twin bed in the other. The bed was covered with a flower bed sheets. There was make-up on the desk, stuffed animals in the closet, and photo's of pop stars and divas.

"The typical female teen room." Inuyasha commented when he picked up a picture that was on the bed. "Hey, maybe she isn't so bad…" He said as he showed Kagome his own picture that was cut out of a near by magazine. Kagome rolled her eyes.

"Put that down narcissus and help me look!" Kagome said. Inuyasha stuck his tongue out at her as he made his way around the room.

After about an hour of searching they were getting frustrated.

"Kagome, what are we looking for!" Inuyasha yelled after crawling out from under the bed. He had dust bunnies all in his nose. He sneezed a few times to get rid of them. Kagome glared at him.

"You have been asking the same question ten times in the last five minuets! For the last time, I. Don't. Know!" Kagome yelled and with a groan she fell back onto the bed she was sitting on. Inuyasha lay next to her and they both stared at the ceiling.

"So…" Kagome started after a while.

"So….." Inuyasha said back. He was getting sleepy. Man this bed was comfy.

"How about them braves?"

"What?" Kagome laughed at his confused face.

"Don't worry about it." She said once she calmed down.

"I still want to know what we need to find." Inuyasha closed his eyes and sighed. "I just want to get this over and done with."

"Same…" Kagome thought what she has that's really important to her. Well her family for one, her friends, and her life in general! Dealing with all this has had a realization in her life. Life is not all about things. But then she thought of all the things that she use to think was important to her. Her sax, her grades, her diary…her diary!

"That's it!" Kagome shouted. Inuyasha, who was snoozing at the time, fell off the bed.

"What's it?" He called out from his place on the floor. Man, the floor was comfy too.

"The thing that we've been searching for: Her diary!" Kagome said with a laughed and ran to the book shelf and started to search.

"Uh-uh, no way! When I was little I would read my next door neighbor's diary. Mom found out and gave me a serious scolding…"

"Well good for you. No one is supposed to look in a diary. But this is a special case. Kikyo's dead. And we need to get rid of her, pronto!" Inuyasha understood what she said and started to search around the bed. Kagome was taking book after book from the shelf and looking threw them. Inuyasha had stripped the bed looking under the mattress, the pillow, and the sides of the bed. After a few minuets Kagome let out a frustrated sigh.

"Where is it!" She yelled. Inuyasha stared at the ceiling again, thinking.

"I had a friend that has a diary on the computer…"

"But she doesn't have a computer!"

"Oh…right…well I was just saying!" Inuyasha continued to look around her room. His eyes landed on the ceiling fan and onto the light fixture in the middle. There was something…in it?

"Kagome come here." Inuyasha said smiling.

"What?" She asked making her way over. Whatever got him smiling, she wanted in! Inuyasha made a step with his hands.

"Climb on." He instructed. Now, incase we forgot to mention Kagome is very self conscious about her weight.

"Now way. Forget it. I'm too heavy." Kagome said. "Why don't you find a chair or something-"

Inuyasha grabbed her around the waist, making her blush, and sat her upon his broad shoulders.

"Now reach into the light and pull out whatever's in their." He instructed her again. Grumbling Kagome did as told. At once her hand came in contact with something hard what wasn't glass. She grabbed a hold of what ever it was and pulled it out. In her hands sat Kikyo's missing diary.

"Inuyasha…h-how did you know?" Kagome asked bewildered. She hopped down off his shoulders staring amazed at the book.

"Aww…it was nothing. I'm just brilliant I guess." Inuyasha said with his famous smirk. Kagome ignored him as she sat on the bed and opened the book.

Day: March 5th, 05

Dear diary,

Today was the endurance run. I hate gym. We do nothing but run every day! My legs haven't had time to recuperate! Nobunaga said that I was out of shape. Ha! I ran circles around him after that comment! All the guys were laughing at him. But I must confess: I had a major wedgey after that. What do they have to make the guy shorts look like underwear!

Kikyo

"Well that wasn't helpful." Kagome said with a sigh and turned the page.

"Sure it was. We now know that she hate gym, hates getting a challenge, and has no sympathy for others." Inuyasha said proudly. Kagome rolled her eyes again.

Day: May 25th, 05

Dear Diary,

Nothing much happened. My boyfriend and I are having a tiff but that's nothing new. I'm thinking of dumping him soon, right after my birthday though. Nobunaga's father is the head of the famous toy company.

Kikyo

"What was the point in that?" Inuyasha asked.

"I don't know. I wanted to know what happened on my birth day."

"May 25th is you birthday?"

"Yep." Kagome said and flipped threw to another page.

Day: Oct. 1st, 05

Dear Diary,

Kaguya helped me download AIM today. I must say: where was I! I had so much fun! I met a lot of new people. One caught my interest though. He kept asking me information about myself like my age, my b-day, and so on. All I know from him is his screen name (Which is Spiderhead666, weird name…), his age (20), and his birthday (Oct. 13th) (A/N: On this coming's calendar Oct. 13th is on a Friday). I'm going to keep my eye on him for a while.

Kikyo

"That's got to be our guy!" Inuyasha proclaimed.

"We don't know for sure…Let's head back to the others and read the rest together." Kagome said. She marked the spot with a dog ear. They made their way to the door and out into the hall way. Kagome felt a shiver run threw her spin again as the neared the bathroom. Inuyasha noticed this and stepped in front of her showing that he would protect her. She smiled her gratitude.

Slowly the crept closer to the door. The light was on but as far as they could hear no one was their. Inuyasha shrugged his shoulders at her and she repeated the action. Suddenly the heard a gasp. Kagome felt her heart quicken as she gasp turned into chocked sobs. She felt Inuyasha tense up beside her and new that he could hear it as well. Without a second thought Kagome reached and pushed open the door. It swung open with a bang causing both to jump at the sudden noise. Surprisingly there was no one their. Kagome made to walk in when Inuyasha grabbed her by the arm.

"Hold it. We have to be careful. We don't know what's going to happen." He said. Kagome smiled making him confused.

"I know. Thanks for worrying."

"I-I wasn't worried!" Inuyasha said putting up his defenses. If Kagome had been new to all of this she would have been hurt but his blushing face gave away the truth behind the words. Kagome tucked the diary into her back pocket and stepped into the room. At once a blast from the past came threw. She had been in this room before! In her dream!

"Inuyasha! This was the room in my dream!" Kagome said paling dramatically. This was not good! They had to get out of their.

"Let's go." Inuyasha said and made way to leave when to door closed on them. Kagome turned to see Inuyasha try to turn the knob. She knew it was locked, she knew they wouldn't get out, she knew that when she turned around someone would be their. She knew. And yet she did it anyways.

Hanging over the toilet was a woman. Her short brown hair was falling in her eyes and Kagome could only guess that it had once been curly and lively. Her cheeks were sunken and drool hung from her mouth and into the bowl. She glanced up at the pair, her eyes streaming with unshed tears and emptiness.

"A-are you alright miss?" Kagome asked politely. Gosh, she was asking a ghost if she was alright! She was insane!

The woman hunched back over and choked up whatever there was in her stomach. A sob reached their ears but it quickly turned into a hollow laughter.

"I can't believe it…Je ne peux pas belive cela…I can't belive this!"

"What can't you belive?" Kagome asked. Inuyasha rolled his eyes. Now was not the time to be a ghost whisperer! It was her concern that was causing her to be like this and not relies the danger!

"Que?" She lady whispered. Thank god that Kagome had taken French!

"Ce qui ne peut pas vous belive?" Kagome said fluently repeating her last question.

"J'ai donné naissance à un monstre..." She whispered solemnly. Now Inuyasha was confused.

"Kag, what did she say?" He asked as the woman stated to mumble incoherent things.

"She said that she gave birth to a monster. I belive she's more French than Japanese."

"Ya think!"

"Je veux commencer... Je veux être libre..."

"What was that?" Inuyasha asked again.

"I want to start over, I want to be free."

"Free? From what?"

"I don't know. I'll ask." Kagome turned back to the woman. "Libre de que?"

At this the lady stilled. She raised her eyes to keep a steady gaze with Kagome as she whispered something over and over to herself again and again.

"Que?" Kagome asked gently.

"SIN!" The lady yelled. The sound of her voice pushed Kagome into the tub to the left of Inuyasha and Inuyasha flew into the mirror causing it to shatter.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha called out. Water started to overflow everything. Vomit and blood poured from the facets in the tub and show head coating Kagome. Kagome slipped and slid in the tub as she struggled to stand up.

"Kagome, hang on!" Inuyasha yelled as he dashed from his place on the counter. The smell was getting to him. His reaction time was slower than he would like.

"You shall not interfere!" The lady called out. Before Kagome got her footing the shower head busted and a whole waterfall of dark water fell on top of her pushing her down again. The shower glass slid closed before Inuyasha got to her.

"You think this will stop me!" He yelled. He grabbed onto the handle and pulled with his entire mite but it did not budge. Inuyasha started to punch it but it never shattered. He could see Kagome trying to stand above the water trying not to swallow any.

"Let me in!" He yelled at the ghost. She only smirked at vanished. He heard a muffled scream and turned to see Kagome being pushed under by the ghost.

"I shall be free from this curse!" It yelled.

"No! Let her go!" Inuyasha's voiced strained with emotion. He couldn't lose Kagome! She was too damn important to him! To everyone! He would die before letting some stupid ghost steal her away!

Inuyasha's blood pulsed. He felt his demonic powers take hold. The beads around his neck shattered with the energy Inuyasha was creating. He ran towards Kagome in a blind fury. He was going to save her and no damn wall was going to stop him!

His fist shattered the glass. Water rushed out of its confinement and filled up the room. Kagome gasped for air when the ghost let her go. This was not good! They had to find her attachment! Kagome looked up at her trying to see if anything was their. The ghost was staring at Inuyasha with wide eyes. Kagome glanced at her wrist to see if any bracelets were their but was shocked to see blood running down them. It fell into the calming still water and turned into a bottomless black. Kagome let her eyes trace up to her neck and saw ligature marks and close to that was a hole were one could see the still heart. A shimmer caught Kagome's eye and found it to be a locket! That must be it!

"Inuyasha! Get her locket!" Kagome called out. She turned and stared at the demon Inuyasha. It growled an inhuman growl and leapt towards its enemy. That ghost was going down! Kagome scrambled out of his way and onto the floor. She watched as Inuyasha made strike after strike cutting open her body even more! Once Inuyasha got her pinned Kagome ran forward and snagged the chain from around the ghost's neck.

"Dasvidanya! Ye are not guilty. Now rest." Kagome said. Everything stilled. The water looked frozen. The lady's eyes were wide and her body started to disincarnate. She sent a pained look over to Kagome and stretched out her hand. She didn't understand!

"No! You are supposed to die! You are supposed to take my place!" She yelled. Her arms stretched and caught Kagome in the stomach.

It happened so fast! The pain was hardly felt until she looked down. The hand was gone now. Inuyasha made sure of that and the rest of the body went away. It all came crashing to when Kagome looked down and saw red, pure golden red, stain threw her damp shirt. But still Kagome did nothing. She stared up at Inuyasha before her eyes rolled back into her head and she fell to the floor in a heap.

"No!" Inuyasha yelled. He bolted and snatched her up not noticing anything but her. "Come on Kagome…open your eyes…say something!" Inuyasha pleaded. His rational mind took over his demonic and decided to take her away from here, to a place were she could be treated. He bolted out of the door and down the stairs. He only stopped to grab his and Kagome's shoes noticing that his socks were dry and so were his clothes! He glanced behind and saw absolutely no trace of water to be found but a thin line of mold on the wall. Inuyasha shook his head before dashing off into the night and towards the mansion to treat Kagome's wounds.

XD

She watched him run off with the girl in his arms, a shame that she couldn't kill her when she had the chance. Kikyo turned from her window and faded into the darkness and back into limbo with the shackled and caged Midoriko. Kikyo was calling the shots from now on!

A/N: Merry Christmas One and all! I hope ya'll like my gift to all of my great reviewers! See ya soon! Ja NE!